It was the dead of night, she had been sleeping peacefully in her bed when it happened. The front door to their small home had been broken down, they had been found and there was no chance that they could escape, the home was too small for her to make it to her window without being noticed. She should have tried to stop it, or at least tried to save herself, but she was frozen. As soon as the two men knocked down her door they attacked her mother viciously before shooting her. As soon as the shot rang out their attention was on Katherine.

"Don't try to run, sweetie. There's no use. It's just us and you now." The first man said with a smirk.

"Your daddy tried to hide something from us sweetheart, we don't take kindly to that. To return the favor we're going to take something that's his." Their hands were all over her, she tried to break away, to scream for help, but all of her attempts were futile. By the time they were done with her Katherine Jacobs was a shell of her former self, laying naked on the dirt floor of the home she shared with her mother.

Katherine woke up in a cold sweat, it was the third time that week she'd had a dream of the horrible night six years ago when she was brutally attacked and left for dead, while her mother bled out less than six feet away. She was 21 now, and as much as she liked to say that she had managed to put the past behind her it only seemed that it was gone during the day, nearly every night since the attack she had nightmares about it. At least she had help, at least she had Gibbs.

Joshamee Gibbs was a good friend of her father's, he sailed with him for four years. Gibbs was on his way to warn Katherine and her mother Matilda that her father, Captain Robert Jacobs, was dead and that the men that killed him couldn't find what he stole. Gibbs thought that perhaps his Captain gave the maps to his wife for safe keeping and he was warning them to leave as quickly as possible. He was too late to save them from the attack, but he was there in time to save her, and for that Katherine was very thankful. Gibbs gave her space in his apartment in Tortuga to live, he helped her to fight, and he made her the pirate that she was today.

He'd been gone for months now on some expedition, but he'd sent word that he would be home that evening. To meet him, if she were in town, at The Faithful Bride at sundown. They had much to catch up on.

Katherine got out of bed and got ready for the day, well, er, evening. As it turns out she'd had a bit too much fun the night before and slept the entire day away. Ah well, such was life in Tortuga! In a matter of minutes she was bolting out the door, eager to see her old friend that was basically a father to her. It had been too long, between her adventures and his they're barely seen each other the past year. The pair had never really sailed together, a lot of pirates thought it bad luck to have a woman on board, Gibbs was one of them. Although he did make an exception for Katherine more often than not. It was either piracy or prostitution for a woman her age living where she did and he would gladly sail with her rather than let her sell herself.

On her walk toward The Faithful Bride she saw the town come to life. Most establishments here ran for all 24 hours, but Tortuga really came alive at night. It was one of the few free ports in the Caribbean and it was constantly busy. In no time at all she had arrived at her destination. When she came in she could see Gibbs at their usual table in the back corner, but he wasn't alone.

"You know, Mister Gibbs, it is truly rude to be having drinks with another man when you're waiting on a lady," She joked as she approached the table, but when she saw who was sitting with him she almost immediately forgave him, "Jack Sparrow, it's been too long, mate."